Word: kilter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specifies that through fares must not exceed the aggregate of the intermediate fares between any two points. The I. C. Commissioners suspected that certain roads charged through passengers extra fares on "limited" trains, made no such charge for way passengers on the same trains, thereby throwing out of kilter the delicately balanced passenger tariffs, violating...
...simultaneously. The deathrate was 12.8 per 1,000, an increase over 1921, when it was 12.1. The British deathrate is lower than that of any other major European country, and would be still lower if corrected for a normal age and sex distribution, which has been sadly out of kilter since...